JAMA Forum: Why Take Vitamin D Supplements if They Don’t Improve Health?

Aaron Carroll

March 24, 2016

One of the questions I’m asked most often atThe Incidental Economist blog, on myYouTube channel, and through other means of communication is whether vitamin D supplementation is a good thing. I’m amazed at the persistence of this question, as study after study seems to show that vitamin D isn’t doing most of us much good at all.

Come for my ranting against Vitamin D. Stay for my thoughts on how it relates to reducing health care spending.

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Aaron Carroll

Aaron E. Carroll, MD, MS is co-Editor-in-Chief of The Incidental Economist and tweets at @aaronecarroll. He is the Chief Health Officer at Indiana University. He is also a Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Dean for Research Mentoring at the Indiana University School of Medicine. In addition to contributing regularly to The New York Times and the Atlantic, he is the author of four books, most recently The Bad Food Bible.

JAMA Forum: Why Take Vitamin D Supplements if They Don’t Improve Health?

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